The Indian Navy has signalled a much larger role for Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL), the Defence Ministry's Miniratna public sector unit, positioning it as a long-term partner in the country's maritime security setup...

Strip away the trade-corridor language and Gwadar has always been two projects wearing one name: a commercial port that was supposed to move cargo, and a strategic naval foothold that gives China a...

Bangladesh's 2022 national census, conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, recorded the country's Hindu population at 7.95 percent of the total, down from 8.54 percent in 2011. At the time of Bangladesh's...

When India's senior military fraternity began calling General Upendra Dwivedi the "Drone General," it was not a casual observation. It was an institutional verdict — a recognition that one man had, in the...

In any democracy, the larger the public expenditure, the stronger the expectation of public accountability. Roads, railways, hospitals, and welfare programmes are routinely subjected to scrutiny, audits, and parliamentary questioning. Yet when it...

In the winter markets of Dhaka and the flour mills of Chittagong in Bangladesh, the tremors of a war being fought five thousand kilometres away arrived without warning. Russia's invasion of Ukraine in...

In democratic societies, whistleblowing enjoys considerable moral valour; those who expose wrongdoing are often lauded as heroes of transparency. Yet when applied to the armed forces of a sovereign state, the act takes...

On 29 October 2016, a fisherman named Rasraj Das was beaten by a crowd in Nasirnagar, a small upazila in Brahmanbaria district in Bangladesh, and handed to the police. He had been accused...

When Pakistan commissioned PNS Hangor on 30 April 2026 in Sanya, China, the first of its eight Hangor-class submarines, the ceremony was freighted with symbolism. President Asif Ali Zardari attended as the chief...

Civil airports are symbols of connectivity and commerce - gateways through which people travel for work, family, and leisure. Under the conventions governing armed conflict, they occupy a protected status as long as...

When Pakistan's military agreed to a ceasefire on 10 May 2025, its generals presented it to their public as a strategic success. The reality, as revealed by Pakistan's own frantic post-conflict actions, tells...

Nepal's foreign policy has a name for itself, 'equidistance,' and the doctrine holds that a country wedged between India and China should maintain functional, balanced relations with both, without drifting into the orbit...